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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Ok this is it for now... Last few quilts that have gone to Project Linus. First up my leaders and enders of 2” squares. The box was overflowing so I just started sewing them together. First in pairs, then in sets of 3, then 9 patches etc…

It was a bit tedious, but the end result gave me a very colourful quilt. It made me think of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant so that had to get included on the back.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

I love how well this quilt turned out and went to town with the pictures..hence why it is getting a post all to itself. Most of these blocks were from the Just Takes 2 challenge from a few years back. I never did make them all so I had to come up with a setting that worked with what I had.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Here's the next lot :o) This first quilt was a demo I did a Rocheberie back in October. You might recall me posting the same tutorial here too. Again I made more than enough blocks to make another quilt for Linus. As a straight set would have meant a lot of bulky seams meeting in the same place I decided to add some sashing in red to space the blocks out. By doing this it made the 6 x 7 setting more square.

Again I did some all over meandering…have you guessed it’s a favourite of mine?

Last one for today…another orphan quilt. You might recognize the centre block from 2011 when I guest posted on Sew We Quilt and the rest of the blocks are a mix of spare blocks from my stash and the Linus stash.

Sunday, June 07, 2015

Ten quilts! I never imagined that sewing up all the samples from the last 4 years of teaching would yield 10 quilts. Though I have to be honest that part of the reason I got so many is that it has been my intention in the last six months or so of making samples that they would be completed and passed on to Project Linus. I figured it was a win-win for both myself and the charity. As 10 is a lot to post in one go I thought I’d spread it over the next 10 days so you can see what I’ve been up to since February.

First up - a quilt measuring 48” square. Some of you might recognize it as Ryan’s Ribbon block, but unfortunately the tutorial has disappeared. UPDATE: Thanks Verna for the link. Seems it is back again :o)

I completed it with some all over meandering.

Next is a mixed bag of flying geese units from a basics class I ran last year paired with some orphan blocks.

I had a go at a more boxy all over quilting design… it worked well but I didn’t find it as much fun as meandering as I had to stay focused not to box myself into a corner :o)

Thursday, June 04, 2015

As soon as I saw the early pictures from Lori’s (Bee in my Bonnet) new book I knew it was hopeless to resist…I HAD to get this book. Lucky for me there is a supplier in the U.K. (Kaleidoscope Books) and as soon as they got delivery mine was sent out to me. This is the first book that I have ever bought where I have jumped right in and started making blocks. Normally books get bought and then sit on the shelf for a few years with thoughts of “one day…”

I think one of the things that appeals to me about this book is the bright colours that Lori uses. I already had a stash of 30’s fabrics and 5 - 6” blocks from another pattern and thought it made sense to add to them using the patterns in Lori’s book.

I’ve been busy making more 6” blocks that I really like as well as watching with interest as to what Lori’s shares on her Farm Girl Friday posts.

These blocks are “sew” much fun to make, but unfortunately I made one little mistake …can you spot it?

It was the wing on the bird. I couldn’t believe it!

I went running up to my husband and said, “ok, now for just a second I want you to pretend you are a quilter that understands the satisfaction of perfectly matched points..now look at the wing on the bird! Now I want you to have the sympathy of a fellow quilter that understands how distressed I am that I have to unpick those perfect points to fix the wing”

Hubby did his best to understand while I got out my seam ripper.

Luckily the wing went back in as well as it did the first time and my points aren’t too bad either :o)

After making 7 blocks and adding them to the other 5, I have decided to put them in the barn setting as illustrated in Lori’s book. It’s really nice just sewing away and not having to work out the math. I’m really enjoying this project :o)

Monday, June 01, 2015

Oh hello there! Did you think I would never return?? Never fear...I have at least 1/2 a month's worth of posts lined up ready to share all the fab things that have been going on since I last wrote. You should know by now that when I go quiet it's because I'm sewing sewing sewing :o) or baking, or cleaning, or ironing…

So with lots to share I thought I’d start with some random posts from my Instagramfeed

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